EU set for crunch talks with US over trade tariffs after warning Britain against seeking its own deal

“Top EU trade officials are set to hold crunch talks with their US counterparts in Brussels this morning hoping to get “clarity” on Donald Trump’s controversial new steel and aluminium tariffs” writes Our Foreign Staff for telegraph.co.uk. The EU’s top trade official Cecilia Malmstroem will meet US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in Brussels from 9.00am (8am UK time) along with Japanese Economy Minister Hiroshige Seko.Mr Trump’s announcement has stung the European Union and triggered warnings of an all-out international trade war.